During its weekly market series, this Corktown nonprofit recently added a new space at its headquarters, as part of a pilot program that uses emerging technologies to treat issues like anxiety and trauma.
“Our promise to longtime Detroiters is that they won’t be pushed out by development, and nowhere is intervention needed more right now than in Corktown, which is seeing an unprecedented level of new development,” says Mayor Mike Duggan.
A UK-based international music events group is hosting three small, private concerts this summer in unique spaces in the North End, North Rosedale Park, and Corktown neighborhoods.
These Detroit groups are taking fields that were once crowded with weeds and reimagining them into special places for neighbors to gather. Here's how they're making it happen.
“The Southwest Greenway will make it easy and fun for people living and working on the west side of Detroit to get to the Detroit Riverfront,” says Matt Cullen, chairman, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.
Detroit-born Khalid el-Hakim’s mobile museum has evolved into one of the biggest collections of African American history and artifacts in the country. Now the pioneer in Black Museum Studies is touring Michigan, from Bloomfield Hills to Beaver Island.
Community and business leaders, both local and international alike, gathered in Corktown this past Thursday, Aug. 5, to celebrate the opening of the new Chase Bank Community Center, the first such center in Detroit and just the seventh in the country.
These upcoming market spaces could be be boon for people-of-color-owned businesses in a historic Detroit neighborhood.
Through a partnership with the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, an equitable development scorecard is under development and will be used to determine what gets built at 14th and Dalzelle.
From historic low mortgage rates to virtual tours, COVID-19 has dramatically changed the home-buying process. Realtors tell Model D about the trends they're seeing — and where to buy.
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